The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Entered as Second-class matter September 21, Vol. HI.Ne .. ( iaaldabaas Rates: In Chicago, Outside Eni MILL STRIKE STILL INCREASING | FORCES AT BEGINNING OF FIFTH WEEK; EMPLOYERS ARE DESPERATE By J. LOUIS (Special to The ENGDAHL, Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 21.—With ranks still growing the 10,- 000 textile workers of this district are celebrating George Wash- ington’s birthday by holding special mass meetings to inaugurate the fifth week of their strike. For the first time in the history of the industry the mill owners have declared Washington’s birthday anniversary a holi- day. They made last Saturday a full holiday for good measure. But it was all a bluff on their part. There were no workers in the mills, with the exception of a few foremen who had brought their wives to parade as scabs, * so there were workers to enjoy the holiday. The strikers are standing solid. The struck mills and the number of workers out in each mill are as fol lows: Botany Worsted mills, 5,500; Gera Worsted mills, 1,200; Forstman- Huffman mills, 2,000; New Jersey Worsted mills, 800, and the Passaic Worsted mills, 1,200. Others to Come Out, The Fostman-Huffman concern has several mills. About half of the workers in these plants are out. Ef- forts are being made to bring out the 2,000 workers in plants that have not yet been struck. Many came dyt dur- ing the week-end. Indications. are that the workers in the mills of the Dundee Textile company will also Join the strike. Martial Law Threat. It is very evident that the mill owners feel that the outlook is rather black for them. ‘They are trying the ers. First: They are paving the way for bringing In the state militia and’ the [their skirts, approached ‘the city” declaration of martial law. Second: Stool pigeons of the mill- owners are trying to stir up the usual trouble. Scabs have been beaten up and pépper thrown in the face of at Joast one alleged strike-breaker, all of which has been carefully blamed on the strikers. Yet no facts to prove these charges have been offered. Third: On the basis of alleged dis- orders the police made an attempt to close at least one hall occupied by the strikers. When I came into Passaic on the train from New York the local em- ployers’ press was carrying flaming headlines to this effect: “Strikers (Continued on page 2.) Struggle The fore talist parties class. ous bills mow before congress which foreign-born. The whole standard cl usual methods of desperate employ- Williamsburg Organize for the of reaction are not idle. Steadily, surely, preparing for the campaign of 1926 against the working Every unnaturalized foreign-born worker is threatened in the vari- MAYOR WALKER REFUSES TO SEE WORKING WO Mothers Defeat Board of Education Transfers By KATE GITLOW. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb, 21. — The new elected mayor, Jimmle Walker, does not care for the smiles or the hand> shaking of the working class mothers, Neither does he care for their tears or hardships. The united mothers of representing schools 168 and S5j:with babes in their Shatt in New York for the-second time to demand relief from the unbearable conditions of the public schools from the mayor. They went to demand that he stop transfering children from one school to another, forcing the chil- dren to pass dangerous crossings. Six children have lost their lives on these crossings. When the mothers approached the mayor for the first time they only succeeded in seeing the mayor’s sec- retary who faithfully promised for the mayor that the matter would be taken care of and the answer would be re- ceived by the mothers before Feb. 1, when the transfering of the children (Continued on page 2) arms and with children ¢linging in 1926 quietly, the capi- would register and photograph the of? living of the American working the right to strike, the right to organize, is being menaced, The Furriers’ Union is being attacked; the |. L. G. W. is preparing to resist the drive of the bosses against. their union; he hard coal mifers after six months of bitter struggle, have been betrayed in the most brutal fashion by the Lewis machine; eight thousand textile workers in Passaic are. éngaged in a struggle against the millionaire mill owners; the ‘rall- road workers are demanding an inereéase/ The workers are relioetng to the forces that are moving them into the struggle. The capitalist courts have not be dictatorship has made it a crime to belong to the Workers (Communist) In Pittsburgh the capitalist in Idle. Party; in Zeigler the bosses, the bosses’ goyernment and the bosses’ labor lieutenants have combined to send e ight.militant, class-consclous miners to jail for fourteen years; in Massachusetts the old laws against blas- phemy passed in 1669, are resurrected to send militant working class fighters to jall; the bastiles of Califormiavare still crowded with the best a working class fighte ‘The army, the police, the courts, every weapon of the American capitalist government ts! called into action against the workers and farmers of America. In 1926 the parties of capitalism for a vote of confidence in the dict: government. The inor ‘will again come before the workers atorship of the bosses—the present ng resentment of the workers against thé brutal attacks and betrayats must be crystalized into action. It is our party’s opportunity and its obligation to organize the exploited masges for the struggle in 1926 against the the capitalists’ program the workers program of the capitalists. Against must set up their own program, Our party has formulated this program and our party must now prepare to mobilize the workers for the campa the workers—the Workers (Commu unit of the party must respond tort! the central executive committee, to Up to date, very little has come in on this fund. Our party cannot tal The cl vacation; our party cannot rest. talist forces are mobilizing to crush Our members must supply the the campaign for 1926.. upon its duties with the enthusiasm _ as Bolsheviks. . Every Bolshevik on the fobblise B pidade ign of 1926. The advance guard of nist) Party ' mobilizes first. Every he call of the party's general staff, raise a campaign fund of $20,000. js struggle goes on—the the workers and their organizations. junds with which our party is to enter Our party°is equal to this task and must enter and determination which marks us A C, E, RUTHENBERG, General Secretary Workers (Communit) Party be by mail, $8.00 per year. cago, by mail, $6.00 per year. REE SPEECH FIG 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1926 a NEW YORK EDITION Uunols, under the Alct of March 3, 1879 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER . eam PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, Price 3 Cents 1 | the judge. aired im the court. SHIP COMBINE OF AUSTRALIA FIGHTS UNION Struggle Shows Func- tion of Capitalist State (Special to The Daily Worker) SYDNEY, Australia, —(By Mail)— A prolonged and bitter fight between the organized seamen and the ship- ping companies is looming up. The identification of the government with the cause of the employers is com- plete, The trouble began last month with the notification to the Seamen's Union by the Australian shipping com-! panies, which are closely united against the workers that they would not employ on their vessels any mem- ber of the union who had “caused any vessel belonging to any company to be delayed, or of having exercised or having attempted to exercise job con- trol.” The ultimatum marks the be- ginning of a desperate attempt to break the working class organizations engaged in the sea transport services around the Australian coast. Wage reductions, increased hours, etc., will be the lot of the workers if this scheme succeeds, Employers Plan to Smash Unions. At cret meeting in Melbourne n January, 1925, plans were laid for this labor-smashing fight. The ship- ping combine, the Employers’ Federa- tion, the chamber of manufacturers, and the chamber of comnierce all par- ticipated. Among the decisions reach- ed were the following: (1) The deregistration of the Sea- men’s Union and the cancellation of (Continued on page 6) Military Spies Get Due in Soviet Union py Bela MOSCOW, Feb. 21-—Thirteen men accused of being Esthonian spies were sentenced to death by the su- preme court here. Twenty-seven others were sent to the penitentiary, The condemned men were charged with see! let military secrets itor Wsthonia and Great Britain, { WILL SEGREGATE NESRO DELEGATES AT RELIGIOUS CONVENTION IN ALABAMA (Special tothe Daily Worker) Any Negro)delegates to the Inter- national Sunday School Convention to be held in Birmingham, bama, April 12 to 19 will find them- selves segregated according to the advice that has been received by a number of Negro clérgymen. ITALIAN WORKERS PROTEST AGAINST DEPORTATION LAW Bill Aids Mussolini Mur- der Workers NEW YORK, Feb. 21—The New York section of ithe Anti-Fascist Alli- ance of North America sent the fol- lowing telegram to Senator Borah, Representative Berger, M. T. Rainey, A. Johnson, Hamilton Fish and tothe speakers of bothithe house and the senate calling torthe attention of these senators and representatives that the bill calling for the immediate depor- tation of all alirins illegally landed in the United States would mean the deportation back ito Italy of many Italian workers who have escaped the fascist rule ofoMussolini and that such deportation would mean their? sure death: “Regarding bill immediate depor- tation all aliens illegally landed United States to be introduced to- morrow (Feb. 18), we beg to remind| you of presence in America of many refugees escaped from Mussolini persecution. Deportation of any of them means sure neath. “We warmly appeal to noble senti- ments of American hospitality gen- erously bestowed on Garibaldi and Kossuth to uphold magnificent tra- dition of the United States prevent- ing the deportation of political refu- gees.” Wages Increased, SAVANNAH, Ga—(FP)—Wage in- creases of 2c anshour for white em- ployes and 1c for Negroes has been granted to the shop workers on the Central Georgia Railway system, Ala- | During the trial of the thirteen Zeigler miners: framed up on a charge of assaulting D. B. Cobb the prosecution was able to have all evidence of the support of the coal operators in swindling the miners in weighing their coal by the sub-district officials, Lon Fox and D. B. Cobb, ruled out by In this way Fox and Cobb were able to prevent their treachery to the miners being NO INJUNCTION ISSUED; FAVOR ARBITRATION Dress Union Faces New Danger By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Feb, 21.—Arbi- tration between the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and the Association of Dress Manufactur- ers, (contractors) with supreme court Judge Joseph M. Proskauer as impar- tial chairman, is the latest develop- ment in the New York organization drive in the cloak and dress industry conducted by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. No Injunction Issued. When the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union appeared before Judge Proskauer in the supreme court, answering a summons served on them by the contractors’ associa- tion to “show cause why the joint board of the Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union should not be enjoined from declaring a strike in any of the shops of the Association ‘of Dressmakers.” Judson D, Campbell, attorney for the | bosses made an attack on the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union declaring that “the workers are not dissatisfied. The Communists who control the local organization of the union were last year expelled from | the union after a lengthy trial on the ground of being Communists. They now have control of the union and are trying to keep thelr promises of a raise in wages that they had prom- ised the workers.” Wants Agreement Enforced, Morris Rothenberg, attorney for the union, declared that the union wants the agreement between the union and the association enforced, A conference was arranged for Tuesday, Feb. 23, 4 p. m., in Judge Proskauer’s chamber, the question of an injunction against the union being held in abeyance during this period, also by decision of the judge “the status quo for the’ Prevent shall con- ba i in all matters, (Special to The defense of A. Bimba, accused at textile and shoe slave pens who —+, CLIFTON POLICE STRIKERS FOR PICKETING Worke rs Strengthen Lines Around Mill (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Feb, 21 — Six new arrests have been made in the fight that the textile workers are waging against the wage cuts when the pick- ets went out to pull out the Forst- mann and Huffman mill that is still partly working. Four were arrested in the morning siege and two at noon. The pickets form a line and keep on walking in an orderly manner past the gate of the mill. The police told them to go two blocks away and when, the pickets refused “to do« 807 but picketed the gate, they were ar- rested, Given Suspended Sentence. One. of them, Bela Varga, was given a suspended sentence and told that if he. was arrested again he would have to go to jail for 30 days without any further hearing. The judge made this clear as. he fmstructed him in the matter. It meant that he could be the most innocent man in the world, but that the act of the police- man arresting him would not be ques- tioned and that he would have to serve his sentence whether guilty or not of the second charge. The strikers are not intimidated by | this tightening of the rope around pee neck, They go forth bravely | fighting for their rights as tho they | (Continued on page Z.) BOSSES REOPEN AGITATION FOR STATE COSSACKS Unions Will Oppose Mounted State Police With the next legislature @ year distant the propagandists and lobby- ists for an-Illinois constabulary sys- tem of, mounted or motorized police again began their oft-defeated, cam- ‘paign. The alertness ,of organized ‘labor has succeeded in keeping the | Cossacks off the roads and out of the |industrial’centers thus far, ~ Speaking before the Ilinois cham- ber of commerce Joseph T. Ryerson, Chicago’ banker and manufacturer raised the slogan of state police»on |the pretext that Illinois banks. need protection, Recently however .the Illfhols bankers boasted that they had an efficient private army eqtipped MEETINGS PROHIBITED ON EVE OF BINBA ‘BLASPHEMY’ TRIAL STARTS DEFIANT STRUGGLE AGAINST POLICE Daily Worker) BOSTON, Feb. 21.—This city is in the throes of a free speech fight. The codfish-textile aristocracy of the back bay district is allied with the shoe manufacturers in a desperate effort to pre- vent the puritan blue laws being wiped off the statute books. The authorities of three cities have prohibited meetings called for the Brockton of violating the old puritan law of 1696 against blasphemy. This shows a concerted red-baiting drive conducted at the behest of the owners of the fear the rising tide of class sonsciousness among the work- rs of this region. A Bimba defense meetirig sched- uled for Ford Hall, this city, has been prohibited; the meeting in Worces- ter, scheduled for tomorrow night has likewise fallen under the Puritan ban and the police have prohibited the use of the hall in Brockton on Tues- day night, which was scheduled to be held just before trial starts Wed- nesday. Added to these acts of tyranny is the police order in this city forbids ding the holding of a Scott Nearing meeting at Payne Memorial Hall that was to be held this afternoon, Will Demand Free Speech. The Workers (Communist) Party, the International Labor Defense and the Civil Liberties Union have taken up the chaltenge and the fight for free speech is on. In spite of win- ter weather, meetings will be held in the open air in Boston Common and in the public squares of all towns af- fected in case the authorities persist in their attitude to close the halls. The Bimba “blasphemy” case has become a second Scopes case, with this difference, that Bimba also holds revolutionary “political views and is a public figure in the revolutionary labor movement, while young Scopes, in the Dayton, Tennessee, “evolu- tion” trial was a high school teacher who quite inadvertently got entang- led with the forces of darkness and viciousness in that part of the world. Widespread interest centers around the opening of the trial_on Wednes- day and some of the ablest legal tal- ent has volunteered to defend the Lithuanian editor against the absurd charges that are in themselves a vio- lation of the principles upon which the republic is supposed to have been founded. he |Pangalos, Would-Be Mussolini of Greece, Deports Opposition LONDON, Feb. 21—Obedient to the orders of a Greek court-martial, former premier, Papanastassion and 21 military leaders, members of the ex-premier’s party, were deported. The deportees were placed aboard a steamer which procéeded at once to the island of Santorin. The court-martial tried the Papanstassiou on charges of high treason and con- spiracy against the government. Clothing Workers Block Bosses’ Move NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.—(FP)— New Brunswick unions are combating the removal of Wolf & Abrahams Clothing Co. from Bridgeport, Conn., because the firm refuses to make an agreement with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers union. Union build- ing trades workers will not do altera- tions on the building picked by the anti-union concern, “Trade unions are the reservoir of with pistols, rifles and machine, guns for that purpose. the majority of the socially decisive part of the proletariat.”—C, |. Thi HOME-RENTERS ON INCREASE AS HOME-OWNERS DECREASE IN U. S. DES MOINES, Ia., Feb, 21.—American homes are fast disappearing and those that are stil! left are fast becoming mortgaged to the limit declared J. B. Hammond, Des Moines repre: tion, in one of the local church: ntative of the American Homes Associa- In order to show that America is fast becoming a nation of home-renters he showed that in 1900 there we our families, lived in rented homes. 8,365,739 famill or 53.9 per cent of all In 1910 this percentage increased to 54.2 and in 1920 to 54.4, 12, 943,598 American families renting homes. Statistics also show, he said, that whereas in 1890 the percentage of homes mortgaged was 27.7, in 1920 39.7 per cent of all homes, not including farm hom were mortgaged, “These figures demonstrate clearly that the increase in the percentage of mortgaged homes cannot be attributed to the purchasing of more homes on deferred payments, else there would homes, beva decrease in the number of rented the home renter would become a home purchaser,” he said. *